# Heat exhaustion, prostration at Kirby Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2016054167` · 5/13/2016 · FREEPORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** Kirby Corporation
- **Location:** Dow Chemical, FREEPORT, TEXAS, 77541
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was disconnecting a vapor line and a cargo hose that contained trichlor ethylene when his knees buckled and he stumbled. He was hospitalized with heat exhaustion.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*